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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIUE.

WILLIAM MCCORKINDALE, OF I-IOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 MT. HOLY OKE TISSUE MILLS, 0F HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHU- SETTS.

PAPER-PACKAGE.

Application filed. June 21, 1913. Serial No. 775,123.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MCCORKIN- DALE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Paper-Packages, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a paper package and more particularly to a new package for towels, wrapping paper, toilet paper, and whatnot which obviates many difficulties hitherto inherent in such packages and is at the same time inexpensive, satisfactory, and convenient. It is well known that when packages of paper are hung up to be detached sheet by sheet it is a somewhat difficult problem to provide a hanger or support therefor which shall be sufliciently inexpensive to make it commercially practicable and yet free from numerous disadvantages as, for instance, a loosening or sagging of the pack as its size is diminished, the detachment of many sheets where only one sheet is required, and the littering of the floor with fragments of paper as each sheet is torn from the pack. All these disadvantages are obviated and removed by my new package.

Other advantages thereof will appear as the following description proceeds.

In the drawings :--Figure 1 is a plan view of a package of paper punched and cut according to this invention; Fig. 2 is a crosssection of the same upon its medial line; Fig. 3 is a cross-section showing the securing device attached thereto; Fig. 4 shows a complete package partly in cross-section hanging upon the wall; and Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate the partial removal of the paper therefrom sheet by sheet.

The package of paper a, preferably rectangular, has adjacent one end a hole I) drilled therethrough preferably in the form of a slot such as shown. Upon either side of the hole are cuts 0 and 03 extending from the adjacent edge of the pack to a point substantially below the hole 6. Through the hole 7) is then passed a preferably metallic binding strip 6 which is thereafter bent over and clamped or a flexible binding of fabric may be used instead of the metallic binding strip 0. The device is then hung upon a prong stud upon a wall or other support 9.

In operation, the two cuts 0 and (2 make a plane of weakness across the pack below the hole I) so that as the paper is torn away sheet by sheet a small portion thereof k. as clearly shown in Figs. 5 and 6, remains behind the tear ng occurring substantially in a line olning the bottoms of the two cuts a and 0?. Upon the removal of the successive sheets therefrom, each sheet comes away without thls portion h and, furthermore, instead of dropping and littering up the floor the portlon it remains firmly bound by the clamping device 6 in precisely the condition in which it was before. The sheets may therefore be removed one by one from the first to the last and neither the support nor the sheets remaining behind will be in the least affected by the removal of preceding sheets. What may be called the supporting portion of the pack, namely, the portion about the hole I) through which the supporting prong 7" passes. remains in exactly the same position from first to last.

Having now particularly pointed out my invention but well knowing that many departures and modifications may be made from the specific form in which I have chosen here to illustrate it without departing from the scopeof the invention which is more truly bounded and defined by the claims hereto appended, I claim 1. A package of paper towels comprising, a pack of towel sheets provided with an opening adjacent one end adapted for the reception of a supporting arm, cuts adjacent said opening toestablish a plane of weakness, and a binding passing through said opening and over the adjacent end of the pack, whereby-the pack may be readily inserted on a supporting arm. and the portion of each sheet adjacent said opening is left behind as the sheet is torn away.

2. A package of paper comprising a pack of towel sheets provided with a centrally arranged opening adjacent the upper end, adapted for the reception of a supporting arm and two vertical cuts, one on each side of said opening and extending slightly below the plane of the opening to form a plane of weakness whereby the portion of each sheet between the vertical cuts is left behind as the sheet is torn away.andmeans to hold together the portions so left behind.

3. A package of paper towels, comprising, a pack of towel sheets formed with a centrally arranged aperture adjacent the upper end adapted to receive a supporting arm,

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vertical slits formed in said "package adj aserted on a supporting arm and the portions cent said opening extending from the upper of said sheets left behind as said sheets are 10 end of the package to a position below the torn away may be held together.

plane of sald opening, said slits arranged to WILLIAM MOCORKINDALE form a plane of weakness in the package,

and a binding strip passing through said Witnesses:

opening and over the adjacent end of the SEBASTIAN HINTON, pack, whereby the pack may be readily in- MINNm A. HUNTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. i 

